Technique – Stamping

Featuring stamping

Tulip egg card

Hello  everyone!

After inking up a wood-mounted stamp yesterday, I chose another one for today’s card which I made for the colour challenge at  CAS Colours and Sketches.

I chose the beautiful Tulip Egg stamp by Whipper Snapper Designs. This one has 2005 on it, but I’m pretty sure I got this much later – maybe in 2010.

Anyway, I stamped it in Frayed Burlap Archival ink and coloured it with Twinkling H2O paints. I then adhered the Twiggy Nest die cut from Memory Box to my card base and added the egg and a Simon Says Stamp sentiment. I felt it still needed a little something so I coloured some white card with my three colours of Twinkling H2Os and die cut some tiny circles which I randomly adhered on the background and nest.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Egg Tree

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I have my card for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge using products wood-mounted stamps! What a blast from the past!

I still love my wood-mounted stamps and like Christmas ornaments, I seem to have a memory attached to a lot of them! I remember picking up this egg tree stamp at the till in Archivers back in 2011 or 2012. Oh how I loved going to that store whenever I was in Chicagoland! Anyway, today I inked it up and coloured it with my Twinkling H2O paints and trimmed it to create a front panel, as per the sketch. I even went for curved edges and used my Crop-a-dile corner rounder for the first time in AGES. And it was another Archiver’s purchase back in the day!

I added a sentiment by Hero Arts (again another wood-mounted stamp  – from the bargain bucket at Simon Says Create one year!

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LucieG.

Inspired by a stamp…

Hello Everyone!

Last week, I created this card using part of Penny Black’s new Delicate cling stamp (40-832) which I had so much fun colouring. I think it’s such a clever image and started to wonder what it might look like if it was made from die cuts! So I set myself a little challenge – to create a similar scene using just die cuts! I pulled out my Penny Black dies and stamps and got to work!

First of all, I got to work on the foliage. I used the following sets: Frosted Greens (51-710), Daisy Delight (51-676), Garden Greens (51-652), Hanging Planters (51-501) and Spirited (51-721) and coloured them with distress inks. Next I turned to the eggs – I decided to use different size ovals which I cut from a panel I created from Distress Oxide inks. I used a die from the Border Collection (51-717) to cut off the tops of the eggs and saved a few remnants to add to my card!

Next up, the egg cups! They proved most challenging! The plant pot dies that I have are too small and the stamps that I have seemed too tall…. then I decided to get creative! I stamped out the pots from the Perfectly Potted set (30-874) and then trimmed them! I even used one pot to house the two smaller eggs!

Then it was time to adhered all my little egg planters! I created circle focal point using distress inks to ground my die cuts and then adhered them. I added a couple of the egg tops and a few die cut mini flowers (also from 51-501) as well.

Finally I added a sentiment from the Spring Day set (30-805).

This was quite a long process but it was totally enjoyable! It was so much fun finding dies to use and thinking around some of the creative challenges!

I’m going to enter this into the Just Us Girls challenge that has a theme of ‘Egg’ this week.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Egg Planters

Hello everyone!

Today I have my card for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge using products by Penny Black.

I’ve been looking forward to colouring the Delicate cling stamp (40-832) ever since I first the new Springtime 2022 release! Isn’t it a fabulous idea? Perfect for either Easter or more general spring cards!

I decided to use a section of the stamp for the sketch challenge and coloured the image using my Twinkling H2O paints before splattering aqua paint generously! I then trimmed down the panel and fussy cut around one little flower so that it fell off the edge of the panel. I adhered it to my card base and added a strip of glitter paper, positioning that little fussy cut section on top.

I used the sentiment from last year’s Spring Day set (30-805) and fussy cut around it. I adhered it onto my card base – it’s actually strategically positioned to hide part of the foliage from the fourth egg cup!

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LucieG.

Fresh Bouquet

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the colour challenge hosted by Sunday Stamps using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I stamped the fabulous Fresh Bouquet cling stamp (40-841) slightly off the edge of my card base and then coloured it in the challenge palette.  I used my Twinkling H2Os again – oh how I wish I could capture the beautiful shimmer in my photo.

I added a few gems to the flower centres and the sentiment from the Ever Thanks set (30-813) to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Springtime table

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the The Card Concept challenge using products sent to me by Penny Black.

As soon as I saw the inspiration photo, I thought of my mum and her garden… I think it’s the hat as she always wears one when gardening. Anyway, she has a lovely wrought iron table on the patio so I decided to go with a springtime table for my card – and it should come as no surprise that the challenge design style that I chose is CAS – no layers here, just straightforward stamping and colouring and a bit of very soft ink blending!

I stamped and coloured the beautiful Springtime Table cling stamp (40-829) with my Twinkling H2Os – I’m so happy that I caught some of the shimmer in my second photo. I don’t seem to colour much these days, but I had such a wonderful, relaxing time colouring this scene! However, that was my big error of judgement! After spending so long colouring the image, I just froze! I was convinced that I would mess up my colouring! It seriously took me five days to psych myself up to stamp the sentiment! And even then I couldn’t decide which sentiment to use but in the end I went with one from the Love Big set (30-898).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.